[License-discuss] Looking for a license agreement.

[David Woolley]

Chad Perrin wrote:
>> someone else. 
> 
> This may be a touch off-topic for this list, but . . . why would you want
> to grant someone the ability to prohibit others from using *facts* by the
> simple expedient of (for instance) alphabetizing a list of facts?  That's
> insane.  In a time when even the ability to maintain a monopoly over
> things that have been *created* is becoming controversial, someone
> asserting a monopoly over information that has been *found* seems quite
> regressive and, frankly, harmful.
> 

Database copyrights are not like patents.  As long as you obtain the 
fact independently, you can publish them.  Telephone directories and 
maps have bogus entries to help detect whether a competing compilation 
is truly independent.

-- 
David Woolley
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